Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Jul 2000 15:17:05 -0400 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: VIA IDE driver, v1.5 (final) |
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Andre Hedrick wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, Anthony Barbachan wrote: > > > I've seen several BIOSes that detect whether an 80-wire cable is plugged in > > or not. And when the 80 wire cable is not plugged in, the IDE is slowed > > down to UDMA-33. Perhaps these settings should be read from the BIOS if no > > other way is known. I'd also say to default to UDMA-66 as most motherboard > > that ship with support for it also provide an 80-wire cable. > > NO, I have the death of one disk on my wall of shame because of VIA and > mistimed. I will not have another dead disk added to a once spotless > wall. This is foolish. You do not drive 60MPH through a school zone just > because you do not see kids. There will allows be a lose soccer ball > popping into the road followed by a child. As there will be systems that > are U66 fully capable but the ribbon is not present. > > Yeah, this make no sense but neither does defaulting to U66. > > Andre Hedrick > The Linux ATA/IDE guy
So what you are saying is that running a disk in U66 mode without the 80-pin cable can physically damage the drive? Talk about a shoddy interface design...
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Brian Gerst
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